For the English basketball player, see Albert Margai (basketball).
Sierra Leonean politician
The Right Honourable
Sir Albert Margai
2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone
In office 28 April 1964 – 21 March 1967
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Preceded by
Sir Milton Margai
Succeeded by
Siaka Stevens
Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone
In office 1962–1964
Prime Minister
Sir Milton Margai
Preceded by
Mohammad Sanusi Mustapha
Succeeded by
Robert Granville Ojumiri King
Minister of Agriculture
In office 1959–1962
Head of Sierra Leone People's Party
In office 1957–1957
Preceded by
Sir Milton Margai
Succeeded by
Sir Milton Margai
Member of Parliament for Moyamba Moyamba (1957)
In office 1957–1957
Personal details
Born
Albert Michael Margai
(1910-10-10)10 October 1910 Gbangbatoke, Banta Chiefdom, Moyamba District, British Sierra Leone
Died
18 December 1980(1980-12-18) (aged 70)
Political party
Sierra Leone People's Party
Profession
Attorney
Sir Albert Michael Margai (10 October 1910 – 18 December 1980) was the second prime minister of Sierra Leone and the half-brother of Sir Milton Margai,[1] the country's first Prime Minister. He was also the father of Sierra Leonean politician Charles Margai.[2]
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^Sir Albert Margai and the Shadow of Thurgood Marshall Worldpress.org
Sir Albert Michael Margai (10 October 1910 – 18 December 1980) was the second prime minister of Sierra Leone and the half-brother of Sir Milton Margai, the...
office aged 68, and was succeeded as prime minister by his brother Albert. Margai enjoyed the support of Sierra Leoneans across classes, who respected...
opposition of AlbertMargai as Prime Minister. However, Karefa-Smart failed to receive broad support within the SLPP in his attempt to oust AlbertMargai as both...
Upon Sir Milton Margai's death in 1964, his half-brother, Sir AlbertMargai, was appointed as Prime Minister by parliament. Sir Albert's leadership was...
elections. Margai is the son of AlbertMargai, former Prime Minister of Sierra Leone, and the nephew of Sierra Leone's first Prime Minister Milton Margai. Charles...
executed. AlbertMargai, second prime minister of Sierra Leone from 1964 to 1967; the brother of Sir Milton Margai and father of Charles Margai. Charles...
1967 Sierra Leone general elections over incumbent Prime Minister Sir AlbertMargai of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). In April 1971, Stevens made...
former Prime Minister AlbertMargai. The claim was based on a meeting between Gulama and Margai on 19 March 1967 in which Margai is said to have expressed...
independence in 1961 from the United Kingdom, including Milton Margai, AlbertMargai, John Karefa-Smart and Siaka Stevens. Politically, Moyamba District...
from the Creole ethnic group. At the time of Strasser's birth, Sir AlbertMargai was the Prime Minister of Sierra Leone when the country was a parliamentary...
office In 1953, Sierra Leone was granted local ministerial powers and Milton Margai was made Chief Minister and later prime minister. A new constitution ensured...
Independence during the administration of then Sierra Leone Prime Minister Sir AlbertMargai of the SLPP. Bio is the 33 of 35 children born to Sherbro Paramount...
when Lansana's close ally Prime Minister AlbertMargai came to power. He came from the Mende tribe as did Margai and conflicts existed between northern...
Died: Milton Margai, 68, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone since its independence in 1961. He was succeeded by his half-brother, AlbertMargai. After seven...
1967 - March 25, 1967 Sir AlbertMargai (Prime Minister) Mende Christianity April 28, 1964 – March 21, 1967 Sir Milton Margai (Prime Minister) Mende Christianity...
Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904) Sir AlbertMargai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910) December 19 – Héctor José...
had been held by his wife Ella in the previous administration of Sir AlbertMargai. He was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE and...
to the English Bar at the Middle Temple Inns of Court, London. When AlbertMargai left the Sierra Leone People's Party in 1958, Gershon Collier was one...
Leonean journalist. He was also an author and wrote biographies of AlbertMargai, prime minister of Sierra Leone (1964–67), and Kwame Nkrumah, president...
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Leone became independent on 27 April 1961, with Milton Margai as the first prime minister. Margai had previously been Prime Minister of the Protectorate...
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